DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Yeah Son is awful defensively.
I actually think he absolves responsibility rather than get beat / outmuscled and blamed.
Whatever the reason , it's a problem , especially in that formation.
Ultimately it's Sons fault , I know that but the senior players can take on the responsibility of screaming at him to get back.
Alternatively, someone else needs to go there , such as Richarlison,as you suggested.
Also , is there any point having all eleven of our own players in our box defending corners ?
Surely Son would be better left upfield , dragging a couple of the opposition players beck with him, or at the very least he can stay on the edge of the box.
Chelsea had at least two players outside the box on their first goal , I'm not sure if they had any others on the halfway line but at least two outside the box so why did we have eleven players inside the box?
Son is absolutely no use at all in the penalty area on set pieces as we've seen today and on other occasions.
Fully agreed re: set pieces. It's even more annoying because when we head the ball clear, no one is upfield so it just ends up coming back at us and we're stuck in the box until we finally either concede another break or get it out for a throw and reorganize.
Long spells of their possession were started that way - a corner we cleared that they picked up wnd sent back in.